Professional Languages And Implications For Engineering Management Education

For example, the MLA and the American Psychological Association (APA) styles are distinct, and those styles are echoed throughout the literature of their respective disciplines. Students or faculty who have not mastered the appropriate style may find that their work is judged more harshly by their teachers or peers. Strongly technical disciplines such as chemistry and mechanical engineering place relatively less emphasis on writing and their style guides are less widely distributed. Nevertheless, violations of a journal’s or a proceedings’ style clearly affect a paper’s substantive credibility. Moreover, the potentially disparate technical styles are brought together in engineering management (EM), which does emphasize writing and which brings together technical, business, and behavioral elements for both practitioners and academics.